To Mark 150 Years Since the Landing of Chief Police
A plaque at Britomart Monument, standing in Akaroa. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE LANDING OF CHIEF POLICE MAGISTRATE MICHAEL MURPHY AND NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE ON 11 AUGUST 1840 TO COMMENCE FORMAL POLICING IN THE SOUTH ISLAND. UNVEILED ON 11 AUGUST 1990. HON MARGARET AUSTIN MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. E.T. MITTEN ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE REGION COMMANDER.
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
Where it stands
The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
The ground’s other names
Here on 11 August 1840 Captain Owen Stanley
Britomart Monument plaqueIn the archive
A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
52 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 36 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Overgrown Vegetation
Overgrown Vegetation
Trees - General
Roads - General
Overgrown Vegetation
Overgrown Vegetation
Trees - General
Facility - General Request
Water Leak
Water Leak
Water Leak
Park - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Britomart Monument in Akaroa, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
3 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2008. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.
This page as markdown: /plaque/5771-britomart-monument.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.